RomanceRoutledge, 9 sep 2004 - 158 pagina's Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike. This useful guidebook traces the myriad transformations of 'romance' from medieval courtly love to Mills and Boon, and claims that its elusive and complex nature serves as a touchstone for larger questions of literary and cultural theory, such as:
The case for 'romance' as a concept is presented clearly and imaginatively, arguing that its usefulness to contemporary critics can be maintained if it is regarded as a literary strategy rather than a fixed genre. In encouraging the reader to consider the fluidity of literature, Romance will be of equal value to all students of historical and comparative literatures and of modern literary forms. |
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... romance as genre and romance as strategy affords the fullest sense of the term. While no one book could encompass all the manifestations and varieties of romance, the following chapters aim to provide a broad theoretical and historical ...
... romance, the force ofthe term comes precisely from its transformations and reiterations over time. Nor is literary romance necessarily concerned with eros, although this popular sense of the term often permeates it. Finally, literary ...
... romance, one that transcends the specificities ofgenre and can be variously applied to verse or prose texts in a variety of historical settings. The most influential exponent of this sense of romance in the twentieth century was the ...
... romance as a socially conservative form. Through the lens of nostalgia, the past can pose a significant challenge to the present. This sense of romance as an alternative to contemporary reality proved very powerful for the Romantics, in ...
... romance as a literary and textual strategy. Under this definition, the term ... romance because it accounts for the greatest number ofinstances, allowing us ... sense of romance. Roman in French or German now means simply novel, as does ...
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2 Medieval Romance | 37 |
3 Romance in the Renaissance | 66 |
4 PostRenaissance Transformations | 99 |
FURTHER READING | 131 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 133 |
INDEX | 142 |